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Big government and affirmative action : the scandalous history of the Small Business Administration / Jonathan J. Bean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bean, Jonathan J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small business--Government policy--United States.
- Small business.
- Affirmative action programs--United States--History.
- Affirmative action programs.
- United States. Small Business Administration--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a ""billion-dollar waste -- a rathole,"" and set out to abolish the agency. His scathing critique was but the latest attack on an agency better known as the ""Small Scandal Administration."" Loans to criminals, government contracts for minority ""fronts,"" the classification of American Motors as a small business, Whitewater, and other scandals -- the Small Business Administration has lurched from one embarrassment to another. Despite the scandals and the policy failures, the SBA thrives and small bus
- Contents:
- Politics and patronage
- Small business on the New Frontier
- The entrepreneurial era
- Crisis and consolidation
- The agony of Hilary Sandoval
- The small scandal administration
- Small business in an age of big government
- Eternal life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813170978
- 0813170974
- 9780813158648
- 0813158648
- OCLC:
- 903959727
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